History Is Replete With Examples Of Empires

As With Almost Every Significant Aspect Of The Bush Presidency, Its Handling Of 9/11 Was A Catastrophe From Start To Finish.

Certainly There Are Worse Sins Than Doing Everything Possible To Make Your Presidency Matter.

Much Of What Tea Party Candidates Claimed About The World And The Global Economy During The 2010 Elections Would Have Earned Their Adherents A Well-deserved F In Any Freshman Economics (or Earth Science) Class.

One Of The Many, Many Salutary Aspects Of Barack Obama's Impending Presidential Nomination Is The Sea Change His Victory Marks In The Battle For The Mind-set Of The American Foreign Policy Establishment.

If Bloggers Are To Improve Our Public Discourse - Helping Busy And Usually Uninformed People Make Sense Of The World - It Is Necessary To Use Some Sort Of Standard With Which To Judge Their Reliability. Perhaps The Answer (strictly Advisory) Is A Body Of Their Peers. Perhaps Not.